Appeals Court Vacates EOBR Regulation
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Because the proposed EOBR regulation did not address how the rule could prevent EOBR devices from being used to harrass drivers, a federal appeals court in the Seventh Circuit (in Chicago) vacated the regulation on August 26th.
Click here to see the article in CCJ.
As we’ve posted before, the EOBR rule generally would not have applied in local trucking because of the 100- or 150-mile HOS exemption. Despite this setback for the FMCSA, the EOBR issue is not dead. Watch this space for further news.
–The Editors
